By:Isaac Amoah /tntnewspapergh.com

The former New Patriotic Party (NPP) Constituency Chairman for Afigya Kwabre South in the Ashanti Region, Chairman Odeneho Kwaku Appiah (COKA) has made a passionate appeal to the Ghana Police Service to act fast and protect all district assembly buildings, especially in the Ashanti Region, before President John Mahama releases what is expected to be the final list of nominees for Metropolitan Municipal and District Executives (MMDCEs).

Chairman Odeneho Kwaku Appiah aka COKA

The President, through the Ministry of Local Government, has already announced almost half of MMDCEs across the country, and some Assemblies have confirmed their nominees peacefully.

However, before the expected final list is announced, there have been a series of violence and destruction of NDC properties, including Sekyere Kumawu, Asante Mampong and the latest threat coming from Afigya Kwabre South.

The NDC members addressing the media

This time round, the irate NDC youth are not targeting their party office but the district assembly buildings.

It is in the light of this that COKA is calling for a proactive action by the security agencies, especially by the Ghana police, to protect the properties of the district assemblies before any unforeseen attacks.

It would be recalled that COKA recently advised the Regional Chairman of the NDC, Chairman Nana Akwasi, to act and call his party supporters to order but the chairman and other NDC leadership members were yet to act.

COKA’s appeal follows Asaase Radio’s online story headlined: “Afigya Kwabre South: NDC youth reject MCE nominee, threaten to burn district assembly block”.

The full statement posted on COKA’s Facebook page is reproduced below:

“I think the police should protect all district assembly buildings before President JDM announces the list of M/DCEs.

“Dear police, arrest the NDC people who held the press conference and threatened to burn the five storey building built by the NPP government at Afigya Kwabre South. Police, we are waiting, or they are in power so the statement should be ignored? God bless Ghana. Coka, l care”.

It would be recalled that on Monday,14th April 2025, it took Dasebere Osei Bonsu, Mamponghene, to order immediate apology and retraction by the Asante Mampong Zongo youth threats that they wouldn’t allow an Akan man to be named Chief Executive for the Mampong Assembly.